I think it was after an upgrade of Chrome to version 18. Colors in some video players just went crazy... yes; blue skin people... and redish skyes.

When Chrome got updated, not just colors went wrong... Several browser errors regarding Shockwave Pligin broken showed up. In Firefox, errors were not there, yet the colour problem persisted. Same for Opera.

I executed the Software Packages Admin... reinstalled everything related to Flash and Shockwave... same error. I installed an older version od Chrome (v9) and works ok.

What could be the problem? I have Mint 10 Gnome... first time this happens since I begun using Mint.

This thread is in the Main Edition Support Multimedia forum. I don't know if this should be here, or perhaps moved to the LMDE Sound, Multimedia & Codecs sub-forum. I know wyrdoak is using Debian Edition SID. I'm using DE Testing. Are Main Edition users also having this problem? My guess is yes.

altair4 wrote:Seems to be related to flash + nvidia which may explain why this is affecting some folks and not others.

This will cause the resulting trace library to change the VDPAU behavior of any clients that have tracing enabled, so make sure you only enable tracing for the web browser that loads the Flash plugin (eg. for Firefox in Ubuntu, you'd add an "export VDPAU_TRACE=1" line to /usr/lib/firefox-n.n/firefox.sh). Trying to use tracing on any other VDAU client after this has been installed won't work right as it suppresses all the tracing messages and swaps color channels for some operations. Please make sure to restore a vanilla build of libvdpau_trace.so on your system before filing a VDPAU bug against something else.

It also did not affect my laptop with Intel graphics. And it did not happen on an ATI graphics machine with Xubuntu 11.10. I wonder if Debian includes some kind of fix before letting the latest flashplayer-mozilla flow down into Testing?

flashplayer-mozilla (3:11.2.202.228-0.0) came down into testing. No more blue people problem. I wonder if Adobe or Debian instituted a fix. I did not un-check "Enable hardware acceleration".

wyrdoak, I realized that your using the main Mint 12 with the nvidia card. I wonder if you'd still have a problem if you checked Enable hardware acceleration now - although I don't know where you draw that file from.

Too bad I have the same problem as destribbes above, not only at my desktop (NVidia GT275 card) as well as at my laptop (GT55M -> Optimus/Intel HD). It's very irritation that the flash keep crashing when watching (fullscreen) youtube video's

I'm using the offical non-free Adobe Flash player in the hope to have more native Flash support. Afterall I hope HTML5 well be the future as soon as possible ><

This is a real stinker from Adobe. But to be honest, it started again for me after updating the nvidia driver to version 295.40. Can't believe they completely blew the last version of Flash. Real nice.

I'm using Mint Debian. If you're using Mint Main, there are a number of posted Ubuntu solutions on the web. Here's another one (if you really want to maintain hardware acceleration in Flash). It's a play on my link above.

But in Debian, I reinstalled libvdpau1 in Synaptic, and this issue seems to have been resolved.

Hey All...Here is the real fix...(I've tried flashaid and everything...nothing really solves it...and if they did they were very unstable)You can read about the entire issue here:http://askubuntu.com/questions/117127/flash-video-appears-blue/131040#131040The problem is with most newer versions of Adobe Flash 64bit while using NVIDIA drivers. Adobe is the one with the problem, and of course they refuse to fix it.Again its 64bit systems running 64bit flash.First I used flashaid to install the latest 64bit flash. You can do it manually or however you want.